Yellow Submarine Reviews
TIME Magazine
Top CriticIf the result seems less a coherent story than a two-hour pot high, Submarine is still a breakthrough combination of the feature film and art's intimacy with the unconscious.
Here are all the ingredients of a novel entertainment.
This 1968 Beatles musical gets somewhat plot heavy near the end, but it's a marvel of innocence and free association, blending several animation techniques in a loose narrative full of gentle bad puns and flowing visual segues.
The animation is imaginatively conceived, but stiffly executed.
Time Out
Top CriticThere's such a wide disparity of graphic styles from sequence to sequence. Some of them, though, still look terrific.
Yellow Submarine is a family movie in the truest sense.
Full Review
| Original Score: 4/5
Almost 20 years after its release, this charming fable chronicling the Beatles' battles to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies is one of the best testaments ever to the redeeming value of good music.
The movie's boggling matter-of-factness is a key to its enduring -- no, its deepening -- charm.
